Hello again from P2a!  This week was a very short one – only 3 days…so we had to cram in a lot of learning in those 3 days!

We started off on Monday at P.E. learning a Scottish dance called the Gay Gordons.  It was very tricky when we went over the steps and then we had to put it together with the music.  That was when we found we had to move very quickly to keep up with the music!  We were all very hot by the end of P.E. but it was good fun.  Tess worked particularly well as she had to be the teacher’s partner and helped to demonstrate the steps!  More practice next week!

This week in Literacy we learned how to spell words with the -ow sound, like snowman, yellow and elbow.  We moved on with new reading books and started writing a story about what it would feel like if one morning we woke up and discovered we could fly…  We prepared a story plan to help us with our stories then used these to help us write our stories.  We’ll finish them next week and show some on our blog.

In Maths we tried estimating where numbers were on a numberline.  This was tricky because we knew what the beginning number was and the end number but had to make a best guess to find out numbers marked in between.  We also had more practice using numberlines to calculate addition sums to 20 and put numbers in order to 100.

On Tuesday we had more fun in the gymhall with the next part of Percy the Park Keeper – Let’s Move programme!  We had to move around the hall pretending we were the park-keeper and the park animals.  This week in the story one of the rabbits fell down an old well and the other animals didn’t know how to rescue her.  Later we read the story and found out that the animals and Percy all helped to get the rabbit out of the well….but the rabbit had already found another way to escape!

We read some more animal stories in class this week – one about a Farmyard and another Hugless Douglas story.  We’re getting very good at listening to stories and reading them ourselves.

At the beginning of the week we had a visit from the Ancrum JRSOs i.e. Junior Road Safety Officers, who told us that we could enter a school competition to win prizes.  We had to draw a picture about Road Safety and hand them in next Monday.  So here we are very busy drawing and colouring in pictures for this.

     

   

   

We hope some of us are lucky and win a prize…we’ll find out next week!  Meantime here are some of our finished pictures –

     

   

   

   

As it was such a short week we decided to wait until next Friday for a Star and Group of the Week.  Our marbles in our jar are building up….so hopefully we’ll have a Marble treat to look forward to in the near future!

Oh, we also had another furry visitor to our class, who has decided to invite himself to the 3 bears’ table along with Goldilocks.

                                                                                      

We hope he knows how to behave nicely….because we don’t want a naughty chimpanzee in our class!

More from us next week…bye for now from P2a!